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Verde Views March 2009, Issue 4
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Welcome to "Verde Views," the e-newsletter for Mesa Verde
Museum Association members and friends. This periodic publication will keep you
informed about Association news and events, park happenings, new products and
special sales.
The Mesa Verde Museum Association, in cooperation with
the National Park Service and Mesa
Verde National
Park, assists with and supports various
interpretive programs, research activities, and visitor services. We are a
501(c)(3) nonprofit providing educational and interpretive material to visitors
of Mesa Verde
National Park through an active
publishing program and the operation of retail bookstores online, in the park,
and in Cortez, CO. Our services enhance the visitor
experience and promote stewardship of Mesa Verde's world-renowned
archaeological resources and natural landscapes. Proceeds from all Association
operations are donated to the park's interpretive, research, and education programs.
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"Milepost Eateries: a Food Lover's Tour of the Colorado
Plateau"
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To learn more about the Metate Room's use of heritage foods,
we invite you to read "Milepost Eateries" which was published in the Sojourns magazine Issue 3:1 "Food." MVMA members
who pay $50 or more in annual dues automatically receive this award-winning
publication twice a year. Each issue explores a different theme across the
Colorado Plateau. Call the MVMA office at 800-305-6053 to upgrade your
membership today! |
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Executive Chef Brian Puett Brings Southwestern Fusion
Cuisine to Far View Lodge at Mesa
Verde National
Park
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Mesa
Verde National
Park is pleased to welcome Executive Chef Brian
Puett, who will be leading culinary services at restaurants throughout the
park.
An Air Force brat, Chef Puett brings a colorful and varied
background garnered while growing up in an assortment of eastern and western
states, and three years in Japan. His passion for food and travel has taken him
through Europe and Asia, savoring
adventuresome food to spice up his repertoire of international favorites.
Chef Puett is a culinary graduate of the Art Institute of
Colorado and worked in restaurant consultancy in the Denver restaurant scene before joining ARAMARK's
Lake Powell Resort operation in 2003. At
Lake Powell, his commitment to Southwestern
cuisine blossomed into a mischievous interest in fusion cooking, pairing a
Southwest essence along with other genres.
His signature dessert "Napoleon
Looking West" features locally grown grilled seasonal
fruit, layered in stratum with sweet mascarpone cream, crispy wontons and
kissed with a java-caramel sauce. This delicacy richly reveals his truly
fundamental fusion ideals.
Chef Puett is creating the 2009 Metate Room restaurant menu
which will continue the legacy of contemporary interpretations of heritage
foods from the original Mesa Verde inhabitants, while seriously supporting
ARAMARK's sustainability commitment throughout the park's four restaurants. The
Far View Lodge and Metate Room will open for the season on April 23, 2009.
The Mesa Verde Museum Association and the entire park
community welcome Chef Puett, and we hungrily await his new menu selections!
To learn more about the Metate Room's use of heritage foods,
we invite you to read "Milepost Eateries: a Food Lover's Tour of the Colorado
Plateau" (see sidebar).
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Celebrate Women's History Month with These Fine
Publications
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March is National Women's History Month, which affords us
the opportunity to celebrate the many contributions of women in the history of
this nation. Mesa Verde might not have even been designated a national park,
were it not for the passionate campaign of Colorado Springs writer and poet
Virginia McClurg and a nucleus of determined women who, in 1900, incorporated
as the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association.
The Mesa Verde Museum Association stocks a variety of
excellent publications outlining women's history. Some of our favorite titles
include: Women to the Rescue: Creating
Mesa Verde National Park by Duane A. Smith and Andrew Gulliford; National Parks and the Woman's Voice by Polly
Welts Kaufman; Daughters of the Earth,
a thoughtfully-researched chronology of the Native American woman's life by Carolyn
Niethammer; and Tomboy Bride, Harriet
"Hattie" Fish Backus' vivid account of life in the mining camps of the American
Southwest.
As always, members save 20% on your MVMA purchases, and
proceeds support Mesa
Verde National
Park. Click here to
shop our superlative selection of women's histories today! Member discounts cannot be applied on line so please call us at 800-305-6053 to place your order.
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Mesa Verde Seasonal Openings of Visitor Services
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 The arrival of spring means that many visitor services will soon be opening for the season. Far View Visitor Center opens April 5; Cliff Palace tours begin April 5; Far View Lodge opens April 23; Balcony House tours begin April 26; Far View Terrace opens May 5; Morefield Campground opens May 12. In addition: The year-round Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum and MVMA Museum Store hours will extend from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. beginning April 5; Spruce Tree House is now open daily for self-guided tours; Spruce Tree Terrace is open daily.
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